Nineteen groups have banded together to fight a plan to add a new oil pipeline across Iowa.Watch videoA Texas-based company wants to transport half a million barrels of North Dakota crude oil a day through 18 counties in Iowa, on the way to Illinois.The group calls itself the Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition. It is composed of landowners, interest groups and non-profits.They dropped off an official objection to the pipeline at the office of the Iowa Utilities Board on Wednesday. The board will decide whether or not to approve the project and if the energy company can use eminent domain to take property from unwilling landowners.Wally Taylor is an environmental attorney and chair of the Iowa chapter of the Sierra Club. He said the Army Corps of Engineers and DNR also have to approve permitsto greenlight the Bakken pipeline.He said that if one of those entities doesn't approve a permit, the pipeline is dead."The goal is to get all three, we hope we get at least one," said Taylor.State Sen. Jack Whitver said the pipeline would build infrastructure and jobs. He said his concern is protecting the property rights of Iowa landowners, and thinks it could happen without requiring eminent domain."I think it's possible. I was talking to Gov. Rick Perry a while ago about a similar project down there and from what I understand the pipelines are a little more flexible about where they can go and can't go and hopefully they can do it without the use of eminent domain," said Whitver.The Iowa Utilities Board does not have a timetable for their decision and a spokesman told KCCI Wednesday afternoon there's no guarantee a decision will come this year. It's a long process including a public hearing that will likely be held later this year, officials said.

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Nineteen groups have banded together to fight a plan to add a new oil pipeline across Iowa.

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A Texas-based company wants to transport half a million barrels of North Dakota crude oil a day through 18 counties in Iowa, on the way to Illinois.

The group calls itself the Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition. It is composed of landowners, interest groups and non-profits.

They dropped off an official objection to the pipeline at the office of the Iowa Utilities Board on Wednesday. The board will decide whether or not to approve the project and if the energy company can use eminent domain to take property from unwilling landowners.

Wally Taylor is an environmental attorney and chair of the Iowa chapter of the Sierra Club. He said the Army Corps of Engineers and DNR also have to approve permitsto greenlight the Bakken pipeline.

He said that if one of those entities doesn't approve a permit, the pipeline is dead.

"The goal is to get all three, we hope we get at least one," said Taylor.

State Sen. Jack Whitver said the pipeline would build infrastructure and jobs. He said his concern is protecting the property rights of Iowa landowners, and thinks it could happen without requiring eminent domain.

"I think it's possible. I was talking to Gov. Rick Perry a while ago about a similar project down there and from what I understand the pipelines are a little more flexible about where they can go and can't go and hopefully they can do it without the use of eminent domain," said Whitver.

The Iowa Utilities Board does not have a timetable for their decision and a spokesman told KCCI Wednesday afternoon there's no guarantee a decision will come this year. It's a long process including a public hearing that will likely be held later this year, officials said.